Job 8:4

Job 8:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
• New International Version (NIV)When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
• English Standard Version (ESV)If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
• New King James Version (NKJV)If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression.

Context of Job 8:4

2How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

Job 8:4 word by word

אִם־בָּנֶ֥יךָ חָֽטְאוּ־ל֑וֹ וַֽ֝יְשַׁלְּחֵ֗ם בְּיַד־פִּשְׁעָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• If thy childrenבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• have sinnedחָטָאchâţâ' · to sinH2398
• against him, and he have cast them awayשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: let goH7971
• forיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
• their transgressionפֶּ֫שַׁעpesha‛ · transgressionH6588

Cross-references for Job 8:4

• Job 1:5And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
• Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
• Job 18:16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
• Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before Yhwh exceedingly.
• Genesis 19:13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of Yhwh; And Yhwh hath sent us to destroy it.

Commentaries on Job 8:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4If thy children have sinned - I know thy children have been cut off by a terrible judgment; but was it not because by transgression they had filled up the measure of their iniquity? And he have cast them away - Has sent them off, says the Targum, to the place of their transgression - to that punishment due to their sins.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4If thy children have sinned against him - Bildad here assumes that the children of Job had been wicked, and had been cut off in their sins. This must have cut him to the quick, for there was nothing which a bereaved father would feel more acutely than this. The meaning here is somewhat weakened by the word “if.” The Hebrew אם 'ı̂m is rather to be taken in the sense of “since” - assuming it as an indisputable point, or taking it for granted. It was not a…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4Bildad believed God does not pervert justice. He thought the death of Job’s children showed they had sinned against God. Bildad divided people into "the blameless" (Hebrew tam, 8:20a; see 1:1) or "the godless" (Hebrew khanep, 8:13b). He believed one could distinguish them by observing God's actions toward them.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. If--Rather, "Since thy children have sinned against Him, and (since) He has cast them away (Hebrew, by the hand of) for their transgressions, (yet) if thou wouldst seek unto God, &c., if thou wert pure, &c., surely [even] now He would awake for thee." Umbreit makes the apodosis to, "since thy children," &c., begin at "He has cast them away." Also, instead of "for," "He gave them up to (literally, into the hand of) their own guilt." Bildad expresses the…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 8:4

• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• Endure
• Former
• Hope
• Hypocrite
• Yesterday
• Bildad

Commentaries on Job 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings